The School on the 7:15: read-along
The School on the 7:15 as a read-along for the projector: 19 pages, 1511 words, level 10, grade 5.
Page 1 of 19
Every morning at 7:15, a train leaves Pebblebrook Station with fourteen classrooms on board, one in each car. Nobody remembers exactly who decided this. The school used to be an ordinary building, but one night it grew tired of standing in the same place and quietly rolled itself onto the rails. Mrs. Abernathy-Plume, who is both the head teacher and the guard of the train, says that the great advantage is that field trips are very short.
Keys: ← → or Page Up and Page Down turn the page, Space starts and pauses the voice, Home and End jump, F fills the screen. Tapping the right side of a page goes on; the left side goes back.
How to use it
- Press Full screen (F) to put the book on the projector.
- Press Read to me (Space), or read it yourself and turn pages with the arrow keys or a tap. Pick the Pace that suits the class.
- After the last page, three questions come up to talk about.
About this book
- Level 10, Grade 5
- 19 pages, 1511 words, about 11 minutes aloud
- A story, gentle
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About The School on the 7:15
Every morning at 7:15 a train leaves Pebblebrook Station with fourteen classrooms on board, one in each car. Ten short, funny stories later, an inspector comes to find out if it is really a school.
Words to preview
- inspect (in-SPEKT)
- check carefully
- irregular (ih-REG-yuh-ler)
- not usual
- platform (PLAT-form)
- station landing
- stationmaster (STAY-shun-mas-ter)
- station boss
- average (AV-rij)
- middle number
Questions that fit any book
- What happened at the beginning, in the middle and at the end?
- Which page was your favorite? Why?
- How did the main character feel at the end? What tells you?
Questions
How long does The School on the 7:15 take to read aloud?
It has 19 pages and 1511 words, so about 11 minutes at the Steady pace and a little less at Quick. If you stop to talk on the way, plan for more.
What reading level is The School on the 7:15?
Level 10, Grade 5. The library numbers its levels from 0 to 18 and puts the level of a book on its cover; level 10 sits at grade 5. A level is a guide for choosing, so look at the pages yourself.
Whose voice is it?
Your browser's own. Read to me uses a speaking voice already on the computer, so it sounds like that computer and works without a sign-in. Voices differ: some light each word as it is spoken, and some do not, in which case the highlight follows a steady pace instead. Some browsers use an online voice; if yours does, the browser, not us, sends the words of the page to its speech service. If no voice is installed, turn the pages and read it aloud yourself.
Do students need an account?
No. Nothing is asked of anyone and nothing is sent to us. Project the page, or share the link and let students open it on their own screens.
Where does this book come from?
It was written for Peabody's library. It is not copied from a published book.
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